Two historic planes collide at Veterans Day show in Dallas
DALLAS (AP) — Two historic military planes collided and crashed during an air show in Dallas on Saturday, exploding in a ball of the blaze and sending black smoke into the sky. . It is anonymous how many people were on board.
Rescuers rushed to the crash site at Dallas Executive Airport, about 10 miles from downtown. News footage of the atrocity scene showed every crumpled wreckage of the plane about the backyard of the airport grounds. The Dallas Fire and Rescue Service told the Dallas Morning News that no damage was reported among the above-mentioned on the ground. Anthony Montoya saw two planes collide.
“I was just standing there. I was completely shocked and in disbelief,” said Montoya, 27, who attended the airshow with his friends. “Everyone around us gasped. Everyone burst into tears. Everyone was shocked. “
Officials declined to say how many people were on the plane, but Hank Coates, president of the company that hosted the air show, said one of the planes, a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber, had It commonly had a crew of four to five people.The other was a P-63 King Cobra fighter with a single pilot.
The plane had no paying customers, said Coates of the Memorial Air Force, which owns the same plane. Their planes are flown by highly trained volunteers, many of whom are retired pilots, he said.
A National Transportation Safety Board investigative team will arrive at the crash site on Sunday. Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson said the NTSB took control of the crash site, with local police and fire departments providing assistance.
“The video is heartbreaking,” Johnson said on Twitter. The plane crashed and crashed at 1:8 p.m., the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement. The collision occurred during the Memorial Air Force Wings Show over Dallas.
Famous Air Force tester Victoria, the widow of her pilot Chuck Yeager and a pilot herself, had her Yeager on the show as well. She didn’t see the crash, but she did see the burning wreckage.
“It shattered,” said Yeager, 64, of Fort Worth. “I hoped everyone had disembarked, but I knew they hadn’t,” she said of those on board. Two of her planes crash mid-air during the Dallas Air Show Two historic military planes collided and crashed to the ground at the Dallas Air Show on Saturday (November 12),(November 13th) 45 seconds 0 seconds, volume 90D 44 A cornerstone of the US Air Force during World War II, the B-17 was a massive four-engine bomber used in daytime air raids against Germany.A US fighter, the King Cobra was used primarily by the Soviet military during the war. According to Boeing, most B-17s were scrapped at the end of World War II, with only a handful remaining today, mostly displayed in museums and air shows.
Several videos posted on social media appeared to show the fighter flying towards the bomber, which quickly dropped to the ground, unleashing a large ball of fire and smoke. “It was just awful to watch,” said Leander’s 37-year-old Aubrey Ann Young. Texas saw the crash. Her children were in the hangar with her father when it happened. “I’m still trying to figure it out.”
In a video Young uploaded to her Facebook page, a woman can be heard crying hysterically next to Young. Airshow security – especially old Military aircraft – has been a concern for years. In 2011, his P-51 Mustang crashed into a crowd in Reno, Nevada, killing 11 people. In 2019, seven people were killed in a bomber crash in Hartford, Connecticut. The NTSB said at the time that it was investigating.
